Europe Revised

nishers projecting out round his face in a circular effect suggestive of a halo that has slipped down. In connection with whiskers I have heard the Russians highly commended. They tell me that,

rarely found and a muley one is practically unknown. But the French lead all the world in whiskers-both the wildwood variety and the domesticated kind trained on a trell

thes-just as every woman has had hopes of visiting Paris and stocking up with Parisian gowns on the spot where they were created, and where-so she assume

in that direction. And though a man, by the passion of the moment, may be carried away to the extent of buying English clothes, he usually discovers on returning to his native land that they are not adapted to

ot of air around the collar and a great deal of air adjacent to the waistband and through the slack of the trousers; frequently they fit him with such an air that he is entirely surrounded by space, as in the case of a vacuum bottle. Once there was a B

ought back some London clothes. I took a look at the shop-windows and decided to pass up the ready-made things. The coat shirt; the shaped

thick, fuzzy, woolen articles and inflammatory plaid waistcoats, and articles in crash for tropical wear-even through the glass you could note each individual crash with distinctness. The London shopkeeper adheres steadfastly to this arrange

One of these stores is owned by an American, and the other, I believe, is managed by an American. In Paris there are many shops

ike a Skye terrier through a heap of marked-down lingerie; picking out things for the female members of his household to wear-now testing some material with his tongue; now holding a most personal article up in the sunlight to examine the fabric-while the wife stands humbly, dumbly by, waiting for him to complete his selections. So far as London was concerned, I decided to deny myself any extensive orgy in haberdashery. F

ng large public assemblies or social gatherings in-nothing that I could say convinced him that I desired it for individual use; so he modeled it on a generous spreading design, big at the bottom and sloping up toward the top like a pagoda. Equipped with gu

o find an artistic outlet in knee breeches. Before visiting his shop I disclosed my purpose to my traveling companion, an individua

air of knee breeches?" inq

al sporting occas

nce, what

know. And if I should go West next year they

ese knee breeches you contemplate buying are anything like the knee breeches I have seen here in London, and if you should wear them out West am

t the man under it owns a yacht. I cannot go back home to New York and face other and older members of the When-I-Was-in-London Club without some sartorial credentials to sh

d the acquaintance of a salesman of suave and urbane manners. With his assistance I picked out a distinctive, not to say striking, pattern in an effect

f animals in a butcher shop. The cutter was a person who dropped his H's and then, catching himself, gathered them all up again and put them back in his speech-

y inspection, they seemed commodious-indeed, voluminous. I had told him, when making them, to take all the latitude he needed; but it loo

cinched them in abruptly, so that of a sudden they became quite snug at the waistline; the only trouble was that the waistline had moved close up under my armpits, practically eliminating about a foot and a half of me that I had always thereto

lder; but it seemed to me there was a strained, nerv

ppears to be about four or five yards of material I do not actually need in my business, being, as it happens, neither a harem favorite nor a professional sa

know," he interjected, still snuggling close b

you'd change 'em from barkentine to schooner rig, and lower away this gaff-topsail which now sticks up under my chin

ly; and now I knew he was flurried.

the subject," I said. I was becoming suspicious that all was not well with me back t

hem. Peering down the cavelike orifice that now confronted me I beheld two spectral white columns, and recognized them as my own legs. In the same instant, also, I realized what that hard clu

their then state, because, to avoid talk, he would have had to go along too, walking immediately behind me and holding up the

hes and sternly at the tapemeasure-which he wore draped round his neck like a pet sna

he said, "that your

an judge I'm not as tall as I was day before yesterday by at least

resignedly. "I'll 'ave to alter them

came really quite attached to the place. I felt almost like a member of the firm. Between calls from me the cutter worked on those

felt as short-waisted as a crush hat in a state of repose. And the only way I could get my hands into the hip pockets of those breeches was to take the breeches off firs

alled his cutter into consultation and they went over me carefully, meantime uttering those commiserating clucking sounds one tailor always utters when examining another tailor's handiwork. After this my tailor took a lump of chalk and charted out a kind

ade a fatal slip and had irreparably damaged them in an essential location. However, he said I need not worry, because it might have been worse; from what

orbit and walk round and round as though you were circling a sideshow tent looking for a chance to crawl under the canvas and see the curiosities for nothing; and after a while, if you keep on walking as directed, you will come to a person with a plain but substantial face, and that will be me in

utions that are forever favorable to the American side of the argument. To my way of thinking there is only one class of tourist-Americans to be encountered abroad worse than the class who go into hysterical rapture over everything they see merely because it

ter. When a Frenchman attires himself in his fanciest regalia he merely succeeds in looking effeminate; whereas a German, under similar circumstances, bears a wadded-in, bulged-out, stuffed-up appearance. I never saw a German in Germany whose hat was not too small for him-just as I never saw a Japanese in Occidental garb whose hat

rranging their hair and of wearing their hats and of draping their furs about their throats that is artistic beyond comparison. There may be a word in some folks' dictionaries fitly to describe it-there

erica, are mannerly and self-effacing, and have sane, simple, childish tastes. Young English girls are fresh and natural, but frequently frumpy; and the English married woman is generally

e. Her blouse gaped open all the way down her back and she was saying with much fervor, "We have left undone those things which we ought t

ggestive of the portraits seen on English postage stamps of the early Victorian period; but in the arranging of her hair any French sh

land the professional man advertises his calling by his clothes. Extreme stage types are ordinary types in London. No Southern silver-tongued orator of the old-time, string-tied, slouch-hatted, long-haired variety ever clung more closely to his official makeup than the English barrister clings to his spats, his shad-bellied coat and his eye-glass dangling on a cord.

d to do with better hours and better pay; but if they had been striking against having to wear the kind of cap the British Go

inches too short in the legs for him. The Parisian shopman harbors similar ambitions-only he expresses them with more attention to detail. The noon hour arriving, the French shophand doffs his apron and his air of deference. He puts on a high hat and a frock coat that have been on a peg behind the door all the morning, gathers up his can

kney man with the sketchy nose and unfinished features of his breed. He was presumably going to church, for he carried a large Testament under his arm. He wore, among other things, a pair of white spats, a long-t

resplendent, their frock coats more floppy as to the tail and more flappy as to the lapel, than it is possible to imagine until you have seen it all with your own wondering eyes. They are haughty creatures, too, austere and full of a starchy dignity; but when you come to pay your b